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Indian Political System
Unit: IV (c)
1. Approaches to the Study of Indian Politics: Institutional, Political, Economy,
and Human-Governance Approach, Ideological Basis of Indian Constitution;
State in India: Democratic, Developmental.
2. Changing Nature of Indian Federalism; Demands for State Autonomy;
Creation of New States. The Parliamentary System: Functioning, and
Challenges.
3. Judicial System: Judicial Activism and Judicial Reforms; Affirmative Actions
and Forms of New Assertions: Caste, Religion, and Ethnicity.
4. Parties and Politics: Evolving Nature of Indian Party System, Breakdown of
one Dominant Party System and Emergence of Regional
Parties;CoalitionPolitics and Electoral Reforms; Liberalization of Indian
Economy, and Regional and Social Disparities; Working of Indian
Democracy; An Assessment.
India-Pakistan Relations
Unit
Partition: Legacy, Contesting Ideologies
Division and Diplomatic Contestations in the United Nations.
Water Politics: Indus Water Treaty: Kashmir Perspective
Unit – II
2.1 Cold War Context and India-Pakistan Responses.
2.2 U.S-Pakistan Alliance and Indian Response.
2.3 Nature of India-Soviet Relations: Implications
2.4 India-Pakistan Conflict and China.
Unit – III:
3.1 War and Peace between India and Pakistan: 1947-48 War and Karachi
Agreement, 1965 War and Tashkent Agreement.
4.1 Bangladesh Crisis and its bearing on the India-Pakistan Strategic
Equation: Simla Agreement: Main Features.
4.2 Pan-Islamic factor in the Pakistan Policy: Indian Response
4.3 Arms Race: Nuclear Politics and Post-Nuclear Strategic Scenario.
Unit – IV:
4.1 Peace Process, Composite Dialogue: Issues, Problems and Prospects
4.2 Role of Civil Society and Track II Diplomacy in promoting peace process
4.3 CBM’s and emerging Trends
4.4 India-Pakistan Trade: Potential and Problems
South Asia: State and Society
Unit VI (a)
1. The Contemporary Significance of South Asia as a Region; Colonialism and
Growth of Nationalism;Nature and impact of colonialism: Growth of
Nationalism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
2. Pattern of Politics and Political Processes: Evolving Pattern of Democracy,
Role of Military, Violence
3. South Asian Political Economy: Poverty and Human Development in South
Asia, Globalization and Liberalization in South Asia, Famine, Hunger and Food
Security
4. Development and People’s Movements People’s Movements with reference to
Environment, Human Rights and Globalization; Politics of Identities: Ethnicity,
Regional and Gender Peace and Conflict Resolution in South Asia. Regional
Cooperation and Challenges to South Asia
Foreign Policy of U.S, China and India
Unit VI (b)
1. Nature and Scope of foreign Policy ,Concept and Basis of power: Framework
of Analysis
2. U.S Policy of Continuity and change, U.S.Threat perceptions and security,
Interests and Foreign Economic Policy.
3. Main Features of china’s Foreign policy, Relation with Regional and Major
Powers and Foreign Economic policy.
4. Main Features of India’s foreign policy, relations with the Neighboring
countries, Foreign Economic Policy.
Comparative Politics
UNIT IV (a)
1. Evolution of Comparative Politics as a Discipline: Nature and Scope and approaches to the study of
comparative Politics: Traditional, Structural-functional; systems and Marxist.
2. Constitutionalism; Concepts, Problems and Limitations, Party System and Electoral systems and
pressure Groups: Nature and role
3. Politics Development and Politics Modernization and Political Cultural; Political socialization and
Political Communication
4. Political Elite; Elitist Theory and Democracy, Pwer, Authority and Legitimacy and Social Changes: Human
Development Approach.
UNIT IV (B)
Major Ideas and Issues in public Administration
1. Development of public Administration as a Discipline, its nature and scope, impact of information
Technology on Public Administration and Ecological Approach: Fred Riggs.
2. Rational Decision –making Approach: Herbert Simon; Personal Administration: Recruitment, Training
and Morale.
3.Role of Political Parties ,Pressure group and public Opinion on the process of policy formation, Crisis
Management and Good Governance: Problems of Administrative Corruption Transparency, Accountability
and right to information.
4. Leadership, its role in Decision-Making, Neutral v/s Committed Bureaucracy; Impact of Globalization on
Bureaucracy, Financial Administration: Implication and Role in Public Administration.
UNIT III (C)
LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT
1. Local Self Government: Conceptual Framework and Process since Independence, Panchyat Raj in India
reference to 73rd amendment and Urban Local Government with reference to. 74th amendment
2. Local Government: Rural and Urban, with reference to j& k and Emerging Trends of Urbanization in
India and Urban Problems.
3. Finances of local Government, Good Governance and local Government: Problem Areas the Impact of
Women’s Quota in Panchyat, Implementing strategies of women empowerment.
4. Local Autonomy; Machinery of Development at local level with special Focus on Single line
administration in; J & K Roll of parallel Bodies
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Unit VI (C)
1.
International Law; Definition Nature and development, sources
of international Law; Rights and duties of state in international law;
modern institution of international law
2. Peaceful settlement of disputes, negotiation ,good office and
meditation, conciliation, Arbitration; War: the laws of war;
prevention and abolition of wars; prisoners of war ; just-war
doctrine; war crimes victims?
3. Crimes against humanity; extermination, apartheid Torture,
Genocide, traffic
in persons; paradox of international law;
relationship between international law and justices and ethics in
international relation?
4. International court of justices; international criminal courts; public
international law and private international law: a constitutional
question;
Peace and Conflict Resolution
Unit VI (d)
1. Conflict and the role of Violence in history: A Brief Introduction;
violence and Associated Trauma in Armed Conflict in Modern
times; Origin of Peace Studies in the Aftermath Of world War-II
and its Growth in recent years.
2. Peace and conflict Resolution Studies: A conceptual Understanding;
Contemporary Relevance of Peace Studies: Different Approaches;
Non-Violence as a Methodology of Peaceful Protest with reference
to Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
3. Autonomy Experiment with Alana-Island; China-Hong Kong
Experiment with one Country & two systems Conflict Resolution;
past conflict Peace and Reconciliation: South-African Experiment
Modern Western Political Thought
Unit ii (a)
1. Renaissance it’s Bearing on European Thought and Politics, Machiavelli and
Thomas Hobbes
2. John Locke and Rousseau
3. Jeremy Bentham and J.S.Mill
4. Hegal, Karl Marx and Contemporary Relevance of Marxism as an Ideology and
Tool of Social Analysis, Antonio Gremsci
Modern Indian Social and Political Thought
Unit ii (b)
1. Overview of Indian Political Thought; Genesis and Development, The India
Renaissance with reference to the contribution of Raja Mohan Roy and Sir Syed
Ahmad Khan
2. The debate between the liberal moderates and Radical Nationalists, Hindu
Nationalists: Aurobindo, Sarvarkar and Gandhism
3. Communist Moment and Issues; M.N.Roy: Radical Humanism, Socialism with
reference to Ram Manohar Lohia and Jawahar Lal Nehru
4. Nationalism of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad and Two Nation theory of M.A.Jinah
and Political and Social Ideas of Ambedkar
Comparative Politics
Unit IV (a)
1. Comparative Method: An Overview of the field of comparative analysis.
Approaches to Comparative Political analysis” Formal—Institutional,
Political Systems and Structural Functional Approach and Political Economy
Approach
2. Liberal and Welfare State, Authoritarian State and Post-colonial state
Military and Politics
3. End of State and Beyond and Issues of modernization,
Underdevelopment and Dependency and Development and Democracy,
4. Class and Elite: Elitist Theory of Democracy, Electoral Systems, Parties and
Representation
State and Civil Society: Evolving Patterns and Social Movements
Unit IV (b)
Major Ideas and Issues in public Administration
1. Development of public Administration as a Discipline, its nature and scope,
impact of information Technology on Public Administration and Ecological
Approach: Fred Riggs.
2. Rational Decision –making Approach: Herbert
Administration: Recruitment, Training and Morale.
Simon;
Personal
3.Role of Political Parties ,Pressure group and public Opinion on the process of
policy formation, Crisis Management and Good Governance: Problems of
Administrative Corruption Transparency, Accountability and right to
information.
4. Leadership, its role in Decision-Making, Neutral v/s Committed Bureaucracy;
Impact of Globalization on Bureaucracy, Financial Administration: Implication
and Role in Public Administration.
Unit v (a)
Government and Politics in J & K
1.Freedom Movement in J & K: Political Ideoligical Dimensions (1931-1947);
Article 370 of the Constitution of India.(a) Special Status for the state (b)
Politics of Autonomy; Erosion; Current Debates for its Restoration
2. Religion and Region: Nature of the Regional Tension;Issues of Regional
Autonomy Current Debate; Sub-Regional Assertion;Centre-state Financial
Relations.
3.Political of Land Reform and its Impact; Changing Nature of Party system;
Coalition Politics; Nature of Electoral Politics in J & K.
4. Issues of Governance and Accountability; Theory and Practice of Panchyati
Raj in J & K (Special reference to 1989 Act); Militancy and Issues of Human
Rights: Role of state Human Rights Commission;
5. Indo-Pake CBM’S and Kashmir with reference to Cross LOC Trade.
UNIT V (b)
LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT
1. Local Self Government: Conceptual Framework and Process since
Independence, Panchyat Raj in India reference to 73rd amendment and Urban
Local Government with reference to. 74th amendment
2. Local Government: Rural and Urban, with reference to j& k and Emerging
Trends of Urbanization in India and Urban Problems.
3. Finances of local Government, Good Governance and local Government:
Problem Areas the Impact of Women’s Quota in Panchyat, Implementing
strategies of women empowerment.
4. Local Autonomy; Machinery of Development at local level with special Focus
on Single line administration in; J & K Roll of parallel Bodies
Theories of International Relations
Unit III (a)
1 Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarily in International Relations Theory.
Debates over Scientific Methodology in the Discipline of IR.
System Theory of International Relations with Special reference to K. N. Waltz.
2. Explanatory International Theories: Realism and Neo-realism.
Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism
Marxism and Neo-Marxism
3. Constitutive International Theories: Critical Theory,
Social Constructivism, Feminism
4. International Ethics: Cosmopolitanism Human Security and Post Colonialism
International Politics
Unit iii (b)
1. Scope, Significance and Changing Nature of International
Politics; Cold war and Post Cold War politics, changing pattern
of international order.
2. Decolonization; Non-Alignment, Neo-Colonialism and North
South Dialogue.
3. United Nations: Challenges and demand for restructuring;
Different Perspectives; Transnational Actors in World Politics;
Issues of Environment, Terrorism and Human Rights.
4. International Political Economy; Role of WTO; Globalization:
Different Perspectives and Regional Integration: EU, SAARC
(PART I)
MODERN POLITICAL THEORY
UNIT-I (A)
1. Nature and major themes of classical and modern political theory, Positivism-impact on
modern political theory, Debate on the Decline and Revival of political theory. Major ideas
of john Rawls and Robert Nozick.
2. Ideology-Liberalism, neo-liberalism, Libertarianism; Marxism and neo- Marxism. Recent
trends in political theory- Postmodernism, Feminism and Ecologism.
3. Herbert Marcuse-alienation. Habermas and critical theory. End of ideology debate- nature
and relevance. End of History-critical assessment.
4. Clash of Civilizations and the new world Order-A Critique.
UNIT-1(B)
(PART 2)
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Scientific study of politics-assumption and issues. Behaviouralism and its critique. Issues
of objectivity and value neutrality in social science.
2. Nature and emergence of post-Behaviouralism and its impact upon scientific study of
politics. Karl popper’s scientific method. Verification v/s Falsification.
3. Nature of scientific method. Thomas Kuhn and philosophy of science.
normal science and paradigm shift.
Concept of
4. Research Design, Issues of reliability and validity of Quantitative Research Methods,
Probability and Non-Probability Sampling techniques and Qualitative Research.
Course contents
Unit I (a)
Modern Political Theory
Unit I (b)
Research Methodology
Unit II (a)
Modern Western Political Thought
Unit II (b)
Modern Indian Social and Political Thought
Unit III (a)
Theories of International Relations
Unit III (b)
International Politics
Unit IV (a)
Comparative Politics
Unit IV (b)
Major Ideas and Issues in Public Administration
Unit IV (c)
Indian Political System
Unit V (a)
Government and Politics in J&K
Unit V (b)
Local Self Government
Unit V (c)
Indo-Pak Relation
Unit VI (a)
South Asian: State and Society
Unit VI (b)
Foreign Policy of Major Power
Unit VI ©
Peace and Conflict Resolution/International Law
University of Kashmir
Entrance Syllabus
For
M.Phil/ph.d Programme
In
Political Science
2014-2015
Department of Political Science